Chapter 6

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I watched Casadine eat without saying anything. Whenever the long white finger holding the spoon moved, I had to constantly remind myself of what I was seeing. The dignity of Casadine’s actions was so oozing that I wondered if eating could be so elegant.

“Ah… I’m sorry.”

Did I look too much? Casadine stopped moving and suddenly apologized to me.

“You have to eat first, but I eat the food first.”

“No, it’s okay. I wasn’t very hungry.”

As he answered, he said with a light smile.

“My sister is a very kind person.”

“……”

“It’s too much for me.”

Casadine lifted a knife and cut the steak into pieces. He said, taking a bite-to-eat steak with a fork.

“Of course, right now I feel like I’m just eating alone.”

He folded his eyes neatly and offered me food.

Eventually, as she put the steak he was handing in her mouth, a satisfying smile appeared on Casadine’s face.

“It’s delicious. I think the food is more delicious because you cut it.”

“Thank you.”

“But where did you learn the etiquette?”

Casadine’s movement stopped at my words. After looking at me with sad eyes for a while, he lowered his head and opened his lips.

“I was forced to learn etiquette because I couldn’t devalue the product as a slave.”

“……”

It was just a word. However, from those words filled with sorrows, I could see how hard Casadine had lived.

“Wasn’t it an interesting story?”

Casadine laughed as if he was okay and trying to change the awkward atmosphere.

Why? The appearance of trying to hide the festered wounds seemed to overlap with my appearance in the previous life.

“I’m sorry.”

“….. Yes?”

“I should’ve brought you earlier. How hard has it been? …. ”

When he heard that, he said, putting the knife in his hand down on the table.

“I’m fine.”

“Huh?”

“To be honest, it seems like a dream to face you like this now. If it’s a dream, it would be good if I didn’t wake up forever.”

After speaking, Casadine got up from the chair he was sitting and knelt one knee on the floor. Looking up at me, he touched my lips lightly against the back of his hand with a very careful gesture.

“Thank you very much, sister.”

While speaking, his eyes were brutally curved.

“There is nothing to be thank for.”

It was purely for myself that I got you.

With such thoughts in my mind, I patted a little on the back of Casadine, who was kneeling in front of me. I felt the hard back muscles trained by his long sword fighting life at my fingertips.

“Get up. The food will be cold.”

It was Casadine who stood up after getting my permission. So we ate in a very good atmosphere. After eating, I asked, wiping my mouth with a napkin.

“Do you need anything that you like it?”

“What I need…”

He looked up at the ceiling and seemed to think for a while, then opened his lips.

“I wish I had a sword. It can be of any kind.”

“Sword?”

“Yes, since I have lived with only a sword for a long time, it’s strange now that there is no sword in my hand.”

He held and opened his hand repeatedly. I said, watching his actions closely.

“What do you like about anything other than swords?”

“…….”

Casadine was silent. I patiently waited for words to come out of his mouth.

“Sorry. I’ve never thought about what I want in life.”

“Why?”

“Because I was in a hurry to survive right away. But I can tell you this one.”

He said that and looked at me at the same time. Purple eyes with unknown insides came out, and when the eyes met, they bent like a crescent moon.

“I seem to like you, sister.”

“…”

“I felt it from the first time I saw you at the stadium. I couldn’t take my eyes off you because I felt like in a different world, completely far from the stadium. Besides, she said that she would take me as a family.”

It’s a beast that makes fun of his tongue three times just a day after meeting. Indeed, all those who have survived for a long time have a reason.

In my eyes, I had to laugh in front of Damian for three years in my previous life, and I could clearly see what he was thinking. Do you think I’m not aware that you’re pretending to like me?

“Sister.”

“Huh?”

“Even if you abandon me, I will never blame you.”

Contrary to what he said, his eyes were talking. Ask not to abandon himself. Who can reject him if he says such a word with a begging glance. Casadine’s acting skills were outstanding enough to be fascinated by the unknown.

“I will not abandon you.”

“…..”

“I’ll promise.”

Whatever Casadine thought, it wasn’t difficult to pretend to play. Rather, it was more comfortable for him to try to trick me while hiding his real deceit rather than locking the door of his heart.

Her poor and pitiful younger brother, without a drop of blood. I gently stroked his cheek. Then he sighed and opened his lips.

“It’s warm, sister.”

“….”

“It’s so warm, it feels like I’m dreaming.”

It was Casadine, who gently wrapped my hands with eyes filled with heat and blush on his cheeks. This isn’t the way you looked at your sister.

It was my arrogance that tried to treat him as a family from the start. He was struggling desperately, even acting to survive.

I called his name, reaping the touch that had touched Casadine’s face.

“Casadine.”

“Yes, sister.”

“It will be uncomfortable right now, but I hope you treat me comfortably.”

Until she tamed Casadine, she thought she would play a good sister role accordingly. More sweet and warm than anyone else.

“You were struggled to adapt to the new environment. Let’s take a rest today without any worries.”

“Sister.”

“If you have anything to tell me, please come to my room anytime.”

Having finished speaking, I stood up from the chair to return to my room. Casadine noticed that I was about to leave the room and hurriedly grabbed my wrist.

“Why?”

It was Casadine looking at me with a desperate expression as if he was driven to the edge of a cliff by my question.

As she looked at Casadine’s face, he asked, releasing the strength in his hand with a sound of ‘ah’.

“Is it really okay to visit anytime?”

“Huh.”

“…I see.”

To see if he liked my answer, the tail of his mouth rose slightly. I almost laughed at the figure of him.

“Then see you in a bit.”

Soon?

Looking out the window, it was already night. When I glanced at the sky, there were countless stars.

What the hell are you going to do, visit my room in the middle of the night?

“Okay.”

As I tried to find out what was going on, I answered happily. When he heard the answer he wanted, Casadine nodded and greeted me to see if he was relieved.

“Then have a peaceful night.”

“Casadine, you too.”

“Yeah.”

A light smile appeared on the face of Casadine.

When I returned to my room, I took a book out of the bookshelf and started reading. It was a book containing explanations of herbs and poisonous herbs that grow only in the north. As a healer, I could easily find books that were difficult for the average person to get.

‘I’m 20 years old, so I must have healed the Emperor’s illness around this time.’

For healing the Emperor’s illness, our otherwise wealthy family became even richer. Other nobles who don’t know this fact are spreading ridiculous rumors, such as that there’s a mine hidden by our family, tax evasion, and so on. And, when I saw Damian for the first time on the day of the Prince’s birthday party, I foolishly fell in love.

The enormous amount of money our family had earned flowed into Damian intact, and in the end I was stabbed and faced a miserable end.

Falling in love is entirely my responsibility, so even if I can’t help it, I can’t forgive him for using me and in the end he killed me.

20 years old, the day I first met Damian.

About a month remained until the Prince’s birthday party. I read everything in the book. I couldn’t miss either. To deal with him who killed me, I had to know as much about him as possible. I had to know more than I already knew. It wasn’t until I read all the books that I took, I closed the books and lay down in bed.

It was midnight when the full moon rose brightly. As I lay with my eyes closed, someone knocked on my door.

“Sister.”

A voice that was low and clear like the air of dawn came from beyond the door.

“I have something to tell you.”

What do you want to say in the middle of the night like this? What’s the reason he came to me at midnight when everyone was sleeping? But I was willing to play with Casadine.

“Come in.”

Only after my permission was given, Casadine opened the door. At first glance, his silhouette, walking from the door while receiving the faint moonlight, looked like a statue made out of the spirit of a god.

When his eyes met mine who was lying on the bed, Casadine approached me carefully, with a gentle smile around his mouth.

He was very cautious about sitting on the edge of the bed.

“I know it’s rude to visit you in the middle of night, but I can’t sleep…”

He said so and dropped his head slightly. It would be an excuse to visit me because he can’t sleep.

“You told me to visit anytime, so I came here with excuse.”

He used the words I said before. It felt very cute.

“If you can’t sleep, Do you want me to sing lullaby?”

“!”

Casadine’s eyes widened clearly. I didn’t know he would react like this.

“Are you really going to do it?”

“If you want it.”

After blinking his eyes several times at my answer, he shook his head, as if trying to erase his embarrassed mind.

“No.”

Casadine, trying to turn the topic, found something and grabbed it.

“What is this book about?”

What he picked up was the book I was reading until Casadine came.

“As for the northern herbs.…”

“!”

How can a slave read? In the Seville Empire, slaves have neither the opportunity to read nor the opportunity to study.

But why can he read texts so naturally? As I saw him confused, he said, with his eyes down.

“The value of a product increases as capabilities increases.”

“….”

“There were a lot of things that had to be mastered in order to survive. In this empire, slaves are not people, they are just commodities.”

A black shadow cast on his face as he hung the book with his head tilted slightly.

Why? It’s a sad story no matter what anyone hears, but it feels like you’re lying to earn my sympathy. But I could fully understand the feeling of lying.

‘It hasn’t been a while since I knew it, but it’s only natural to be wary of me.’

There was no need to condemn him for lying. All you have to do is match him to his words. I just need to empathize with the pain, heal the wounds in his heart, and become a good sister to him.

“It must have been very difficult. You had to learn things you didn’t want to do.”

“……”

“Besides, being treated as a product. It will never happen in the future, Casadine.”

That’s how it is tamed. Step by step.

“I can’t sleep because I’m anxious, but if sister is okay….”

Before long, the real purpose of his visit to my room came out of his mouth.

“Can we sleep together?”

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